Clinical predictors of severe behavioural problems in people with intellectual disabilities referred to a specialist mental health service

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 824-830

  Hemmings, Colin P ^a,b   Tsakanikos, Elias ^a   Underwood, Lisa ^a   Holt, Geraldine ^a   Bouras, Nick ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Geoffrey Harris House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural problems; Intellectual disabilities; Mental disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LONDON; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 53749083162     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0370-9     Document Type: Article

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